8 Configurations and Cryfials 
great Numbers of repeated Obfervations. 
Their Figures are indeed fo extraordinary, 
that I fhould not dare to have laid them 
before any body, much lefs to have pub- 
lifhed them, were there not many Gen¬ 
tlemen of unexceptionable Credit who are 
living Witnedes of their Truth, and was I 
not alfo able, aimed: at any Time, to pro¬ 
duce Configurations like thofe they were 
taken from. 
Thefe conflant and regular Workings of 
Nature, which the Microfcope difcovers, 
may poffibiy conduCt us a Step farther in¬ 
to her Recedes, and adlib us to judge of 
Caufes and Effects in many Cafes where 
at prefent we are greatly at a Lofs, dnce 
according to Dr. Woodward y f*, " the Stea- 
<e dinefs and Conftancy of Nature in all its 
Productions, and in the Formation of all 
** Bodies, happens from the Condancyof the 
u Procedure of the Agents that are inftru- 
6S mental to the Formation of thofe Bodies, 
sc and from the Unalterablenefs of the Cor- 
pufcles which ferve for confdtuting and 
4 ‘ compo'fing of thofe Bodies.” And we are 
told by the Rt. Rev. Author of Syris'% 
that the Analogy, Conftancy and Uni- 
st foraiity in the Phenomena or Appear- 
14 ances of Nature are a Foundation for gene- 
** ral Rules : and thefe are a Grammar for 
'** the Underftanding of Nature, or the Series 
f Vide Woodward's Nat. Hill, of FoiSils, Eng* Edit- Vol. I. 
pY if6. | Se£t. 122. 
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